280 pages ; 22 cm

Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy. Hopeful about the potential of today’s burgeoning movements, long-time grassroots organizer Jonathan Smucker nonetheless pulls no punches when confronting their internal dysfunction. Drawing from personal experience, he provides deep theoretical insight into the all-too-familiar radical tendency toward self-defeating insularity and paralyzing purism. At the same time, he offers tools to bridge the divide between anti-authoritarian values and hegemonic strategies, tools that might just help today’s movements to navigate their obstacles and change the world. --

Includes bibliographical references and index

Political orphans -- The 99% : the symbol and the agent -- Life of the oppositional group -- The prefigurative and the political -- Aspiring hegemonic -- Beyond the low plateau -- The invitation we extend -- The we in politics -- Conclusion : the next left zeitgeist

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